Dreyer Tree » Hester Susanna van Niekerk Dreyer (1924-2004)

Day of marriage March 8, 1927

• The temperature on March 8, 1927 was between 4.1 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
  • May 8 » Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
  • May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
  • July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
  • December 2 » Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
  • December 3 » Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.

Day of death July 3, 2004

• The temperature on July 3, 2004 was between 12.0 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 30.7 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (35%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2004: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • February 2 » Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
  • April 3 » Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
  • April 24 » The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
  • November 7 » Iraq War: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
  • November 9 » Firefox 1.0 is released.
  • November 23 » The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2001 » Johnny Russell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
• 2001 » Mordecai Richler, Canadian author and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 2004 » Andriyan Nikolayev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1929)
• 2005 » Alberto Lattuada, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 2005 » Gaylord Nelson, American lawyer and politician, 35th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1916)
• 2006 » Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist, developed the OBJ programming language (b. 1941)